Re: Code of Conduct violations handling process
On September 3, 2014 11:17:41 AM EDT, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 03 2014, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
>
>> [Scott Kitterman, 2014-09-03]
>>> We could have an on stage censor with a switch for the microphone.
>
> I am disappointed; the response could have been so much more
> cpnstructive.
>
>> yeah, lets do censorship. I lived in a country with censorship¹, we
>> didn't have people swearing and nobody dared to say something which
>is
>> not politically correct, at least in public. Grat times!
>
> Is your position then that condes of conduct and enforcing
>harassment policies are a form of censorship? (I am congnizent that you
> have not stated this, and harassment was not part of this discussion,
> but I do believe it is related)
>
>> and more seriously, the day Debian will do censorship is the day I
>> retire from the project.
>
> How do you suppose we keep the atmosphere from devolving back to
> the poisonous flame-fest days, and enforce various codes of conduct
> policies? I have seen far too many tech conferences without codes of
> conduct devolve into misogynistic and occasionally racist
>experiences. The argument that codes of conduct are forms of censorship
> is frequently made, but, I am afraid, not very convincingly.
None of those things are at issue in this case. It's not relevant.
Scott K
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